Genre: Travel Memoir
He converted to Islam for 300 dirham. He got engaged to a woman he couldn’t quite reach. He lived in a medina apartment where the gas leaked and the sewer had no buffer. He stayed longer than he should have.
When CD Damitio moved to Morocco, he was looking for something — or running from something, which amounts to the same thing. What he found was a country that was spectacular and strange and beautiful and maddening, and a life that fit him the way a borrowed djellaba fits a man who isn’t from here.
He taught English in Fez. He navigated the chaos of a large Moroccan family in Sefrou. He ate sheep lung on Eid al-Adha, argued about djinn, drank mint tea until he could taste it in his sleep, and slowly realized that the life assembling itself around him was not going to be his.
Not My Morocco is a candid, funny, and unflinching memoir of an American expat who went deep enough into Moroccan life to know that he would never fully belong to it. Not a love letter to Morocco — something more honest than that.
For readers who have ever tried to make a life somewhere that wouldn’t quite take.
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About CD Damitio: CD Damitio is a nomadic writer, traveler, and philosopher who has lived in Morocco, Hawaii, Japan, and across four continents. His work spans travel memoir, satirical fiction, utopian speculation, and philosophical adventure. Find his full catalog at indignified.com/books.
CD Damitio writes at indignified.substack.com — essays on utopias, dystopias, and the spaces between. Free to read. No algorithm, no sponsored content. His books can be found on Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/stores/CD-Damitio/author/B001JP7NWA
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